Comments on: Interview with John Lee https://paintingperceptions.com/interview-with-john-lee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-with-john-lee perceptions on painting Fri, 15 Dec 2023 05:35:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Loraine Stephanson https://paintingperceptions.com/interview-with-john-lee/#comment-124130 Sun, 03 Dec 2023 17:52:09 +0000 https://paintingperceptions.com/?p=15012#comment-124130 John Lee’s students are fortunate! Posts of their class work on his Facebook page show his expertise as an instructor. I love that he can pack so many shapes into a painting without making it feel cluttered. The newer paintings especially inspire in their increasing clarity of light. I have much respect for his work. Thanks for this interview.

]]> By: Mitchell Johnson https://paintingperceptions.com/interview-with-john-lee/#comment-123788 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 06:58:46 +0000 https://paintingperceptions.com/?p=15012#comment-123788 John, I just now read your interview. I enjoyed it. Interesting how your sentences align with what comes across in many of your paintings. There’s a different feeling to the color in your more recent work and it feels more alive and inspired. Too bad you didn’t get to spend time with Leland in person. He would appreciate your paintings. You reminded me how much he hated Salle. He wasn’t a great fan of Hopper either…

]]> By: Jeffrey Carr https://paintingperceptions.com/interview-with-john-lee/#comment-123774 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:50:52 +0000 https://paintingperceptions.com/?p=15012#comment-123774 A very thoughtful and intelligent interview/essay. I can’t help but love the strict formalism of the discussion; there are no comments or explanations on the use of studio junk as the subject matter, just a discussion of the color and diagonals. And I enjoyed the comments on early fascination w 80s art world. John, you didn’t attend Studio School in 70s or Yale at that period?? You are someone who did so vicariously. You would have LOVED Leland Bell; right up your alley. And William Bailey. But it all turned out fine. I’m all for your pedagogical approach: teach the language and grammar first. And if you understand color, the drawing will take care of itself. Similarly, If a student has anything meaningful to say through the subject matter, it will take care of itself. I’m reading now a bio of Diego Ribera; there’s an artist who had plenty to say about the subject matter. But the subject matter alone is not at all what makes the paintings great. Leland Bell had a quote from some famous jazz musician: “It ain’t’ what you do, it’s how you do it.”

]]> By: Bill White https://paintingperceptions.com/interview-with-john-lee/#comment-123773 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:33:14 +0000 https://paintingperceptions.com/?p=15012#comment-123773 John has developed as a painter to find his own point of view That said, his point of view is one that others have believed in too – that color is personal and perception is subjective and that a painting is the amalgamation of so many sensations and their transformation into the painting
John is persistent in his work to make it right which is a place that is discovered
I’m glad to know John and I admire his dedication to his students He gives them so much to absorb and their personal freedom to make something of their own from it

This is an excellent interview one I will share with my friends and students

Bill
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